Another from chemistry: "small dangers are still dangers, don't underestimate them".
This was in my first uni. The person saying that mentioned how he never saw students harming themselves with cyanide, nitration solutions (sulphuric+nitric - highly corrosive and explosive) or the likes. No, it was always with dumb shit like glacial acetic acid skin burns, or a solvent catching fire.
Not common in general usage nowadays. Perhaps it avoided the shift?
But there is definitely room for a subscription that either boosts user engagement (not sure how that would work)
Swap "subscription" for "multiple small transactions" and you have the new gold system. So Reddit is already doing what you (and me, and everyone else) was predicting them to, we just didn't know "how".
It'll likely fail hard though, at least in the long run. For similar reasons as Digg failed.
That other poster is likely trying to deliver a point, that Musk probably never read a book, by clipping the sentence of the other poster.
Websearch "transhumanism silicon valley", and it starts making sense: Musk has faith that artificial general intelligence is coming, Soon®, and that it'll replace grunt labour like programming.
I feel like Greedy Pigboy and Reddit Inc. as a whole deserve to be punished, for all that "my precious data! No, it is not the users', IT IS MINE! MY PRECIOUS!" fiasco. Enshittification will happen either way.
It isn't "Hangul" that is saving the language, but the fact that it's getting an orthography. That orthography could be theoretically in any writing system - not just Latin or Arabic (both already exist for Cia-Cia, contrariwise to what the video claims), but even a native one or Cyrillic or even, dunno, the Cherokee syllabary.
Abidin looks informed on the matter; the same cannot be said about whoever produced this video. I'll highlight a few issues.
[0:33] - pretty much all languages are "syllable-based". They organise sounds into syllables. The video is likely trying to convey that it's a CV (consonant, vowel, repeat) language, unlike, say, Russian or English (that cram quite a lot of consonants in a single syllable).
[0:36] The video is trying to use "transliterated" as a posh synonym for "spelled"; both are not the same thing. Transliteration is to convert text from a script from another; for example, "Quis credis esse, Bellum?" (Latin, using the Latin script) → "Кўис кредис ессе, Беллум?" (Latin, using the Cyrillic script instead) is transliteration.
And you can spell pretty much any language in any writing system. The association between grapheme and sounds (or phonemes) is arbitrary.
You might say "but the Latin alphabet doesn't have a letter for /ɓ/!" - well, it doesn't have a letter for /ʃ/ either. Italian handled it by spelling it ⟨sci⟩, English as ⟨sh⟩, Polish as ⟨sz⟩, Portuguese kind of repurposed ⟨x⟩. And the current Latin spelling for Cia-Cia - that you can check here - handled /ɓ/ just fine, using a similar approach as the Hangul one.
Musk being an assumer (note how he's vomiting certainty on future events) doesn't surprise me a tiny bit.
PEBKAC
Every time that I see this acronym I'm tempted to pronounce it as ['rʲefkas], then I remember "ah, it isn't Cyrillic".
Isn’t lol short for “laughing out loud”?
Wiktionary lists both "laughing out loud" and "lots of laughs". Nowadays though it's neither; on a pragmatic level it doesn't convey "I'm laughing" / "I laughed", it conveys amusement and/or lack of seriousness, depending on the context.
I don't even recall pronouncing it in loud voice. In English I simply say "what you see is what you get", and in Portuguese or Italian I rephrase it. (Although I remember at least one person calling it ['vizi 'vige] in Portuguese. And I was, like... "what?")
Sometimes users submit some content (post or comment), and due to a bug or performance issue the content doesn't appear, even if the instance already saved it. So the user resubmits it over and over... like this:
(This is not my own comment, but I had this issue already.)
While this isn't usually done for the sake of spam, it's still a source of noise for the community, and annoying for the user oneself.
So my suggestion is that, when a user tries to submit a piece of content to Lemmy, Lemmy should compare it with the last piece of content already submitted. And if they're identical, prevent it with some error "warning: duplicate" or similar.
I usually twist this into "memento mori, quoque uiuere" (remember [that you'll] die, also [that you'll] live).
Like, not trying to become worm food full of regrets is nice and dandy, but remember that you'll suffer the consequences of a few of your actions while you're still alive.